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The General Medical Council (Registration (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations) Order of Council 1995


Published: 1995-10-19

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Statutory Instruments
1995 No. 2786

MEDICAL PROFESSION
The General Medical Council (Registration (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations) Order of Council 1995

Made
19th October 1995

At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 19th day of October 1995

By the Lords of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council

Whereas in pursuance of section 32 of the Medical Act 1983(1) the General Medical Council have made the Medical Practitioners Registration (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1995 as set out in the Schedule to this Order:
And whereas by subsection (8) of the said section such regulations shall not have effect until approved by Order of the Privy Council:

Now, therefore, Their Lordships, having taken the said regulations into consideration, in exercise of the powers conferred by the said section 32(8), do hereby order as follows:

1.  The said regulations are hereby approved.

2.  The General Medical Council (Registration (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations) Order of Council 1987(2) and the General Medical Council (Registration (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations) (No.2) Order of Council 1987(3) are hereby revoked.

3.  This Order may be cited as the General Medical Council (Registration (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations) Order of Council 1995.

N.H. Nicholls
Clerk of the Privy Council

SCHEDULETHE MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS REGISTRATION (FEES) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS 1995

The General Medical Council in exercise of their powers under section 32 of the Medical Act 1983 hereby make the following regulations:
Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Medical Practitioners Registration (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1995 and shall come into force on 1st May 1996.

(2) In these regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Medical Practitioners Registration (Fees) Regulations 1985(4).

Amendment of regulation 5 of the principal Regulations

2.  In regulation 5 of the principal Regulations, in paragraphs (1) and (2), for the words “regulation 7, 8 or 9” substitute “regulation 8 or 9”

Regulations revoked

3.  Regulations 5(4) and 7 of the principal Regulations are hereby revoked.

Application of these Regulations

4.—(1) Nothing in these Regulations shall result in an annual retention fee becoming payable by a person whose name is included in the Overseas List in respect of any period before his first due date falling when these Regulations are in force.

(2) Expressions used in paragraph (1) and in the principal Regulations shall have the same meanings in the former as in the latter.

Given under the official seal of the General Medical Council this

L.S.
Robert Kilpatrick
President
24th day of May, nineteen hundred and ninety-five.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)
The Regulations approved by this Order provide that, from 1st May 1996, doctors whose names are included in the Overseas List of the register of medical practitioners shall pay annual retention fees.


(1)
1983 c. 54.

(2)
S.I. 1987/102

(3)
S.I. 1987/2166

(4)
Approved by S.I. 1986/149, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.